GOP deeply divided over Trump's social media crackdown

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Conservatives are deeply divided over President Trump's executive order directing the federal government to consider stripping some of the legal protections afforded to the social media platforms.

The order, which came after Twitter appended a fact check to one of the president's claims about mail voting fraud, would ostensibly make it easier to sue the social media platforms over content posted by the people who use their websites.

Conservatives have long been concerned by what they view as political bias in Silicon Valley. Those concerns have grown as outlets such as Google, Twitter and Facebook have become primary sources of news aggregation for many consumers.

But some conservatives are appalled by Trump's executive order, viewing it as an authoritarian power grab that will lead to government censorship, an explosion of frivolous lawsuits and a massive expansion of the regulatory state.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/gop-deeply-divided-over-trumps-social-media-crackdown/ar-BB14PSV3?li=BBnb7Kz

I'm sure Susan Collins is concerned.

[Iliyah]

1. COVID-19; Floyd's death at the hands of police; protests;

riots; violence and damages; 105, 000 deaths and continuing from COVID-19; unemployment; lack of healthcare; lack of PPEs, et al.

And all they are "concerned" about is social media crackdown, which they whined about for years because they felt they were being not properly heard?

[Grins]

2. Nice.

And you were just getting started!

[gulliver]

3. A whole lot of GOP types have Twitter in their business model.

Trump's taking a dump on the sidewalk of a building they have an office in.